I am "crunching" at the moment, too (have been for the past 2 months). I am now at the end of writing my thesis, and it's fucked up. It's not that I don't like what I am doing... it's actually quite funny (Non-Photorealistic Stroke Rendering for robotic painters), but writing the thesis itself (instead of the program, which is more or less finished) is just frustrating. I has taken me 2 weeks now to write about 20 pages (of ~40 to 50 all in all). And I only have 4 weeks left.

What I am trying to say is, even if you like the job you do, it will never encompass ALL the things you need to do. There's things you'll like in making games and there's stuff you won't. I find bugfixing sometimes REALLY frustrating, because it often means reading through pages and pages of source code without any real leads or pointers as to what the problem really is (complex dependencies make this really problematic). And then you see "I am such a fuckwad, I cast the negative integer to a uint withint a parameter"... (this happened to me two weeks ago^^)).

BUT... after the crunch, you'll probably be in a prolonged "happy" phase, because you accomplished something awesome.

Game has gone gold, releases next week, Beta players get free in-game items

FUCK I HAVEN'T BUDGETED FOR THIS!

There's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake mankind in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. It gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment and warfare and gives nerds something to obsess over that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives.

I'll be getting this. Don't know if I can get it on day one though. ($$)

There's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake mankind in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. It gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment and warfare and gives nerds something to obsess over that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives.

Well, Warhawk was day one PSN AND Retail, as not to piss off the retail chains... but it is interesting that this isn't available as a network game right off the bat.

There's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake mankind in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. It gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment and warfare and gives nerds something to obsess over that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives.

Oh, in NA it was. In Europe it took a month for retail version (Warhawk). These games always 'felt' like PSN games though and it just feels wrong to buy it on disc. Plus I am at a stage now where I download anything I can instead of disc.

So much micro managing going on'-) Wonder if the pick-up and play aspect from Warhawk is gone now?

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